Posted by Harri Mellin on 11/16/36 11:40

In article <1140436328.179002.218090@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
testing_h@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> As many people know, CD's have a limited life, the typical failure mode
> being the aluminium layer developing "pinholes".
>
> The problem is that most sensible people back up their valuable disks
> to CDR in case the original gets damaged. Legally (ignoring the RIAA's
> protests) you are allowed to make a single backup copy in the original
> format as long as you have purchased the disk.
>
> So, what happens if that original disk becomes unreadable?
>
> Is ownership of the original (unuseable) disk enough to stay within the
> law, or does the copied digital content become illegal the moment the
> disk is unreadable?
>
> -A
>

you still have the original cd so you don't have to trash the copy

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